“We are an organization of doers.” –Joyce Moses, president, Raleigh Garden Club by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long Raleigh Garden Club members take their mission seriously. You can find them planting wildflowers along roads and public greenways, volunteering at…
by Allison Atkinson photographs by Brantley Atkinson Nancy Hight has been dressing a bronze chicken statue at the foot of her Raleigh driveway every morning for more than 10 years. She can’t tell you the date it all began, but she…
A CAROLINA SUMMER by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Greg Montgomery “We really are spoiled,” one of my North Carolina friends says. “The ancient curves of the Blue Ridge to the west, the blue-green rise and fall of the Atlantic to the…
“You really don’t come here just to eat,” says Kimberly Kulers, who runs farm-to-table restaurant SoCo in Wilson with her husband Jeremy Law. “When people come for dinner, a lot of the time they’ll come and grab a glass of…
Imagine if you could stay up all night in your backyard wearing night goggles: What would you see? Deer? Opossums? Fox? You can find out, and contribute to wildlife conservation at the same time, by participating in a “camera trap”…
If you’d like to visit the charming golf mecca that is Pinehurst – but aren’t much of a golfer – here’s a new reason to go. The historic Pinehurst Resort, known for its beauty and its storied PGA and U.S….
Things are heating up in Farmville, N.C. There, East Carolina University has helped transform a gas station into a glass blowing studio that’s open to the public. “It’s totally amazing,” says Dean of the ECU College of Fine Arts and…
photographs by Christer Berg It takes an artist’s eye to find beauty in the everyday: Denise Hughes did just that with her family’s recycling bin. “First, I noticed how easy it is, even as a family of four, to fill…
Step aside, stand-up paddleboard: There’s a new watersport in town. Bellyaking is “kayaking meets swimming meets surfing,” says founder Adam Masters, who invented the watercraft outside of Asheville about a decade ago. As its name suggests, a bellyak is quite…
When pop-rock-classical musician and North Carolina native Ben Folds takes the stage at Red Hat Amphitheater May 6, he’ll headline “a celebration of everything that’s great about Raleigh,” says Matt Strickland. Strickland is the executive director of Band Together, the…
A Daughter, A Muse text and photographs by Diana Bloomfield Most of my work focuses on the intersection of the past and my memory of that past. Memories, fugitive and ever-shifting, are always subject to interpretation, while photographs are tangible. The…
This Greek Revival home in Tarboro NC is timeless & vibrant with its silk curtains, lacquered walls + a light-filled kitchen with custom cabinetry & brass hardware.
“There’s usually more than one way to get through something.” –Ken Walsh, Triangle Troglodytes vice-chair by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long When can we go underground again? asks the Triangle Troglodytes tagline. The answer? “About every other month or…
Welcome to Walter’s fourth annual travel issue! Every year in May, we get out of town, at least in print, for North Carolina adventures of all kinds. We hope to tell you stories that’ll nudge you off your porch (as…